Description

Key Responsibilities

• Lead data governance and certification initiatives for enterprise data assets.
• Define business metadata, critical data elements, ownership, and data stewardship.
• Govern data across Databricks Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers using Medallion Architecture principles.
• Establish and monitor data quality rules, lineage, and source-to-target mappings.
• Partner with business stakeholders, data engineers, architects, and analytics teams to identify trusted data sources and improve data quality.
• Leverage Unity Catalog (or similar tools) for metadata management, lineage, and data classification.
• Facilitate governance workshops and present recommendations to business leaders.
• Mentor junior analysts and promote governance best practices.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Analytics, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Quality, Metadata Management, Data Stewardship, or related disciplines.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks and Medallion Architecture (Bronze, Silver, Gold).
• Experience with Unity Catalog or comparable data catalog/governance platforms.
• Strong SQL skills with experience analyzing large datasets, data lineage, and source-to-target mappings.
• Experience defining business metadata, data quality rules, stewardship, and critical data elements.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to bridge business and technical teams.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Azure, AWS, or other cloud data platforms.
• Knowledge of Delta Lake, Databricks Workflows, and SQL Warehouses.
• Experience with governance tools such as Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Alation, Atlan, or Informatica.
• Familiarity with data quality frameworks (Great Expectations, Soda, Deequ, Informatica Data Quality, etc.).
• Experience supporting AI, analytics, or enterprise data product initiatives.
• Relevant Databricks, cloud, or data governance certifications are a plus

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree